Documents for a discussion over ICT:
2 July 2004
A map showing the cost per-hour of internet access and the percentage of people living with less than 1$ per-day.
2 July 2004
India's high-tech dynamos are turning more attention to the needs of the nation's countless poor. An article from Business Week about computer kiosks for printing poor farmers' deeds to prove their property in front of Dea Justice versus brute middlemen.
27 June 2004
This tutorial shows the guidelines for DTN networks. DTN stands for Delay Tolerant Networks. They were firstly developed to solve some big constrains about IPN (Inter Planetary Networking) but they can be extremely useful for connectivity in developing regions where you do have intermitting and non reliable connections. In facts the big issue DTN is dealing with is a new network layer (called Bundle layer) which will give us the opportunity of networking over lower OSI levels working intermittently.
26 June 2004
A document about chance for poors based on profitability. Will the market rules be the decisive key for developing poor? Is it the right approach to think about "third world" as a new huge market place? Discussion open...
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